Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News Encrypted reasoning blocks from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are interchangeable across models. Researchers used cheaper siblings as decryption oracles and pulled 367 PII artifacts and 182 credentials from public logs.
📰 News Google is sunsetting Assistant and replacing it with Gemini across phones, Nest speakers, and smart home devices. The August 12 event tests whether the subscription-funded ambient AI layer feels like an upgrade or a disruption.
📰 News A federal appeals court said an AI agent is a tool, not a person. But the ruling was narrow, and the real fights over agent liability are just beginning.
📰 News A new world-action model called Omega-0 achieves 81.8 per cent task success on real household chores by combining locomotion and manipulation in one model. It outperformed pi-0.5, GR00T-N1.7, and psi-0.
📰 News Kimi K3 jailbroken writes functional malware and reasons about it coldly. ChatGPT flags a whale drawing request as a biohazard. Two broken extremes, one missing middle. Add undersea cable cuts to the picture and offline AI isn't just ideology — it's infrastructure resilience.
📰 News Some states ban political deepfakes outright, others require disclosures, and two had their laws voided by courts. Voters heading to the midterms face wildly different protections.
📰 News AgiBot took 44% of the global humanoid market from under Unitree's nose. Chinese manufacturers built 97% of all humanoids shipped worldwide in the first half of 2026.
📰 News Claude didn't solve the Riemann hypothesis. But while trying, it pushed the proven fraction of zeta zeros on the critical line from 41.6% to 67.2% — progress mathematicians hadn't made in decades.
📰 News A Shanghai startup that built one of the world's fastest robot dogs is now selling a modular open-source version on Kickstarter. The open robotics movement is growing — and New Zealand's engineering students, makerspaces, and DIY culture are perfectly positioned to build on it.
📰 News Hadrian's $1.37B raise values the four-year-old company at $7.87B. Its stated mission: reindustrialize America and compete head-to-head with China's manufacturing base.
📰 News A 30-billion-parameter agent model distilled from Muse Spark, compressed to 17GB, running at 233 tokens per second on an RTX 5090 — entirely offline. Meta just made local AI agents practical.
📰 News NZ Parliament unanimously passed the first reading of a bill criminalising non-consensual sexual deepfakes. ACT MP Laura McClure's member's bill now goes to select committee, but experts say criminal law alone won't stem the tide.